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ogee

Talon \Tal"on\, n. [F., heel, spur, LL. talo, fr. L. talus the ankle, heel.]

  1. The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey.
    --Bacon.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.

  3. (Arch.) A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an ogee.

    Note: When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon.

  4. The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
    --Knight.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ogee

"S-shaped molding," 1670s, from French ogive "diagonal rib of a vault," earlier augive, of unknown origin. Related: ogival.

Wiktionary
ogee

n. 1 (context architecture English) A double curve in the shape of an elongated S; an object of that shape 2 (context architecture English) A pointed arch made from two ogees 3 (context math English) An inflection point. 4 (context aesthetic facial surgery English) The malar or cheekbone prominence transitioning into the mid-cheek hollow. 5 (context distillation English) The bubble-shaped chamber of a pot still that connects the swan neck to the pot and allows distillate to expand, condense, and fall back into the pot.

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Ogee

An ogee ( or ) is a curve (often used in moulding), shaped somewhat like an S, consisting of two arcs that curve in opposite senses, so that the ends are parallel. It is a kind of sigmoid curve.

The term has uses in architecture, mathematics, and fluid mechanics, as well as marine construction, clock design and plastic surgery.

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Usage examples of "ogee".

The aisle windows have ogee gables above them with finials, and immediately above them a band of panelling running right across the exterior buttresses.

The arcading under the window, a series of ogee arches, is worthy of notice.

Against a high window with a cusped ogee arch she flapped her wings, straining to see inside.

It is somewhat obtuse in form, and is surmounted by an ogee pediment or outer moulding.

These lights are coupled in pairs by four arches with a quatrefoil in the head of each, and again formed in groups of four by an ogee arch above the other arches.

That music rose in a tangled tracery: arabesques of order competing fugally with the improvised discords of the party downstairs, which peaked sometimes in cusps and ogees of noise.

Here and there she touched a piece of furniture in admirationHepplewhite nesting tables in the corner, a mahogany upholstered sofa that could very well be Duncan Phyfe, a tall case clock with a scroll top and ogee bracket feet, an American empire sideboard, fine Hitchcock chairs.

Duncan Phyfe, a tall case clock with a scroll top and ogee bracket feet, an American empire sideboard, fine Hitchcock chairs.

Against a high window with a cusped ogee arch she flapped her wings, straining to see inside.

A blue dolphin was appropriately presented on the ogee arch of her left breast pocket, as though on the crest of a pneumatic wave.